Work Engagement Profile - Interpretive Report + Coaching

Are you feeling tired and disconnected in your work? Here is a great way for you to understand why and get steps to improve your satisfaction and joy with your work life.

The Work Engagement Profile measures key factors that keep you engaged in your work. By engagement, we mean the energy and thought you put into your work. By work, we mean both the activities you perform and their intended purpose. When you are engaged in your work, you take steps to ensure that your activities are effective in accomplishing their purpose.

Self-management involves four steps:

1. Committing to a meaningful work purpose—one that is worth your effort

2. Choosing activities that you believe will best accomplish the purpose

3. Making sure that you are performing those activities competently

4. Ensuring that your activities are making progress toward the purpose

When the right conditions are in place, each of the steps in the self-management process can give you an intrinsic reward—a positive boost of energy that you get directly from your work that motivates you to keep performing at your best.

The Work Engagement Profile measures these intrinsic rewards:

• Your sense of meaningfulness—the opportunity you perceive to pursue a worthy work purpose;
• Your sense of choice—the opportunity you perceive to select activities that make sense to you and to perform them in ways that seem appropriate;
• Your sense of competence—the accomplishment you experience in skillfully performing the activities you have chosen; and
• Your sense of progress—the accomplishment you experience in advancing toward the work purpose.

Intrinsic motivation as measured by the Work Engagement Profile has to do with the psychological rewards people get when they care strongly about their work and do it well—even when no one is watching. The work becomes an important source of satisfaction and fulfillment. In many ways, the four intrinsic rewards—sense of meaningfulness, sense of choice, sense of competence, and sense of progress—serve as psychological vital signs indicating how well your job is working for both you and your organization.

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